The Talking Balls Book Club

[Matt_B]

I think he probably means The Warlord Chronicles trilogy by Bernard Cornwell. Just a guess like

Oh yeah, ture.

 

[Lboro fox]

Oh yeah, ture.

:icon_lol:

 

[Rich B]

Recently finished 11.22.63, a Stephen King novel about someone who is able to travel back in time to stop the JFK assassination. That description really makes it sound like a run of the mill time travel story but it is much more than that. 700odd pages but I couldn't put it down, and the JFK story isn't even the best bit of it. Recommended.

superb book and one with a good ending for once. Am about 100 pages from the second reading of The Dark Tower, absolutely awesome story.

 

[Mawsley]

Peter Kennard's "@earth" is strongly recommended to people with a political conscience, people who like photomontages and people who have yet to learn how to read.

Brilliantly constructed.

 

[Blue Maniac]

superb book and one with a good ending for once. Am about 100 pages from the second reading of The Dark Tower, absolutely awesome story.

Ya ****er, can't believe I missed this. I knew you were alright

 

[The Major]

Recently finished The Firm by John Grisham. Much better than the film, recommended.

 

[Macky]

Recently finished The Firm by John Grisham. Much better than the film, recommended.

I know what you mean Major, I hate it when authors do that. I'm always like "Hello! Can you not come up with your own ideas instead of just copying films?"

 

[Mawsley]

I'm ploughing through Baudrillard's The System Of Objects and I'm all like "Aie, Jean, why didn't you just make this a movie so I could've watched it and shit."

 

[The Major]

I know what you mean Major, I hate it when authors do that. I'm always like "Hello! Can you not come up with your own ideas instead of just copying films?"

I hear they've got a book out for Lord of the Rings now.

 

[Blue Maniac]

I hear they've got a book out for Lord of the Rings now.

How about Romeo and Juliet?

 

[From Gradel to Grave]

Glad this thread is back. :icon_cool

Particularly enjoyed Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall. I avoided it before because of it's length and the fact that I've always stayed away from historical novels. Found it excellent and will definitely be reading the second later this year.

Reading Andrew Marr's History of the World now.

 

[Mawsley]

Urban Encounters by Liggett is insufferable, not least for her refusal to accept that entropy effects urban decline.

 

[Mawsley]

Derrida's "Specters of Marx" and Sims' companion booklet "Derrida and the End of History"

Superb work, absolutely bang on - which is probably the critical praise he was waiting for but died before it was given.

 

[Fox From The Hudd]

Just read Simon Jordan's book you might not like him and he is an arrogant sh.. but cracking read...

Had the chance to buy Leicester...

 

[SwedeFox]

Just Kids by Patti Smith, during a couple of rainy days in Italy. Spellbinding and inspiring. Couldn't put it down.

 

[spionfox]

Just Kids by Patti Smith, during a couple of rainy days in Italy. Spellbinding and inspiring. Couldn't put it down.

Because the nightlife was boring?

 

[Macky]

Because the nightlife was boring?

:icon_bigg

 

[FIF]

Nobody read anything since 2013?

I'm reading Connely's God's of Guilt. It's a mickey Haller novel - not as good as his cop novels but passes the time

 

[spionfox]

David Baldacci. All of his 'Camel Club' novels in a two week period.

Marvellously ridiculous entertainment

 

[FIF]

David Baldacci. All of his 'Camel Club' novels in a two week period.

Marvellously ridiculous entertainment

I just read a couple by Baldacci for the first time. The plots are so impossible in the logical world and he is a little too detailed at times but I've not thrown them away before finishing. I think there's another in the pile that I'll probably get to before term time.